Welcome to the OzoneAsylum FaqWiki
The Wiki
Feature Request list

Links to the Asylum that stay, when a post is archived Pages that link to <a href="https://ozoneasylum.com/backlink?for=4912" title="Pages that link to Links to the Asylum that stay, when a post is archived" rel="nofollow" >Links to the Asylum that stay, when a post is archived\

this is more a not to myself, than anything else,
I'm not even sure it can be accomplished...
We shall see.
--Tyberius Prime


(Added by: Tyberius Prime on Mon 20-May-2002)

________________
Dracusis:

As for the "Linking to an asylum page that's been archived" problem. I've noticed that this happens throughout the asylum a lot as well. Maybe we could alter the Asylum board to write in a HTML re-direct when it archives anything to try and keep the links working all-round.

Although I can see another problem here as well. What if someone links a page in the FAQ then it gets removed from the Asylum after a certain period of time, ie - not archived?. I think the biggest problems at the moment are maintaining integrity between the two structures. Maybe we need to force the migration of the Asylum to a PHP solution sooner? Maybe there are other ways to work around this for the time being.

(Edited by: Dracusis on Mon 20-May-2002)

________________
Slime: here were my original suggestions about this:

I made a test topic in the mad scientist forum, and noted it's url:
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum15/HTML/000063.html

Then I archived the topic, and it's new url is:
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Archives/Archive-000005/HTML/20020520-15-000063.html

So, I'm thinking, maybe there's a way to create a mechanism within the FAQ for linking to posts. The FAQ can replace the link, not with an actual link to the post, but a link to a php thingy to deal with it. Something like, if I type

[asylum15.63]

it will link to forum 15, thread #63. Except that it won't actually link there, it will link to a php thingy, which will check to see if there *exists* a thread 63 in forum 15. If there does, it will forward you there. But, if there does not, it could search the archives for any html file ending in "-15-000063.html". If it finds one, it will both (a) forward the user there, while (b) deleting the old link to itself and replacing it with a hard link to the archived topic.

OK, so it's a little screwy, and may be hard to implement. But it might make things easier; if we don't do something about it, I forsee many broken links which no one will have the ambition to fix.

It might be easier to implement it like this: every time a thread is archived, it can store information about the archival in some text file, saying something like "thread 63 in forum 15 has been archived to this url: ...", then the php script i mentioned could use that text file rather than searching the archives for the topic.

OK. Just some ideas.

-----------------------------------

In the same vein, here is one more idea:
.htaccess and mod_rewrite could be used to transparently search for links to "dead" topics.
Of course, all this depends on the release of the new Asylum, but
I feel mod_rewrite would allow for an easy workaround:

Relevant Threads:
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/001614.html

(Edited by: Slime on Tue 21-May-2002)

(Edited by: InI on Fri 24-Oct-2003)

« BackwardsOnwards »

Show Forum Drop Down Menu